Notices by Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com

I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)

Thank you GitHub!

https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01/generative-ai-is-a-new-drug-report-on-my-first-trip/

@cibyr @inthehands @jaredwhite

yes, y,y,y,y
but "the Drivetrain should be airgapped" ?

what am I missing?

archive.org now coming back online (repeated issues in San Francisco cuz utility blackout)

@internetarchive

SF power still problematic. hit a short outage at @internetarchive HQ

archive.org back online. (good news is , we are getting good at this 😀 )

SF's power situation is still problematic. go go PG&E

https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/

new way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.

fun.

https://display.archive.org/nl

congratulations @internetarchiveeurope and @internetarchive

https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/fun-library-kiosk-and-novel-web-based-display-of-millions-of-web-pages/

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @internetarchive

Thank you crypto folks!

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/ae4800e03c1b55324deec6d6a7630e803eef321d6aba257b733c17b83585cc41

to: https://archive.org/donate/cryptocurrency/

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.

Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

https://archive.org/donate

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/business/video/internet-archive-wayback-machine-church-digvid

@scribblesonnapkins

bicycles and ebikes can also be part of the equation.

These cars are cute.

Amsterdam little car. Starting to happen in the US!

Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)

25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.

Can drive on almost all roads in the city.

This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.

all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok, almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CYnKdHTLK2tolrgvIenq7-_Y2D6SlMARkTyvm7ZjTqU/edit?gid=2067870016#gid=2067870016

from: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/speed-limits-per-street-segment/resource/d6034e92-4836-40e5-8e93-52bad2dfaf3d (go sf!)

Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere!

And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs. Now San Francisco.

Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs.

(ala 15 minute cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city )

@bougiewonderland @electricarchaeo

Canada used to import 34% of US wine exports, now almost 0% (harder to figure out of total production).

So at least of exports, losing canada is significant.

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/commodities/wine-related-products

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,

but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-trump-tariff-trade-canada-changes-29-ways/

we bought a bunch of 'male' guppies, but, uh, now we have tons of baby guppies. Yippie! Happy Sunday.

The Guppy
by Ogden Nash:

Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.

https://allpoetry.com/The-Guppy

there are joys to every job.

having this pop up in an @internetarchive slack thread is one for me.

"The Human Library
This Saturday

The Human Library returns to Cincinnati this Saturday, November 8th from 1:00-4:00pm at the Clifton Branch Library (3400 Brookline Ave).

At the Human Library, you'll have the chance to "check out" real people and hear their unique stories through meaningful one-on-one conversations. It's a powerful antidote to the polarization and isolation that's eroding empathy and understanding in our culture.

https://communityhappenshere.org/?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=690d088fc312bd739cfa3000&ss_campaign_name=The+Human+Library+Is+This+Weekend&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-11-06T21%3A05%3A45Z

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Datacenter cooling uses so much water because it is

"evaporative cooling"-- it is actually boiling water. transition water to steam takes energy-- energy from the machines.

This can use up alot of fresh water (it is), or...

it could desalinate water at a huge scale. boiling seawater allows fresh water to be separated from salt.

so we could have datacenters boil seawater to create fresh water to water plants.

why not? (am I wrong about this?)

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ratio of male to female of domesticated species

0.36%. for chickens

(always wanted to know, and chatGPT makes it so easy!)

Chickens:
The USDA’s 2022 Census (“Poultry & Eggs Highlights”) reported:
Chickens, broilers: ~ 1,737.7 million head.
Chickens, layers: ~ 388.5 million head.
Chickens, roosters: ~ 7.7 million head.

5.4% Cows

Cows (beef + milk cows that have calved): 37.2 million head
Bulls (weighing 500 lbs and over): 2.01 million head

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"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons"

Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take:

"remake the connective tissue—technical, legal, and economic—that made the web an engine for learning and civic life.

Keep the network interoperable.

Safeguard libraries.

Restore competition.

If the open web can still be a place where truth moves farther and faster than lies, the next chapter can still be written with those principles in mind."

https://www.findarticles.com/an-urgent-warning-about-the-open-webs-shrinking-commons/

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"When the sun dips and demand spikes, those batteries push stored solar power back onto the grid, slashing reliance on gas plants and driving fossil gas use for electricity down nearly 40%."

from https://www.transitionfinanceweekly.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email